> Delete telnet.exe on sight, and scan for renamed telnet copies.
[How to stop people running applications on a Win 2k system]
Have you actually tried this on Win2k ?
You get a "Important Windows System Files Have Been Deleted" prompt, it asks you to insert the Win 2000 CD and then replaces the CD. You can tell it to go away but as soon as you insert the CD again, telnet comes back.
How do you stop people downloading telnet type applications - e.g. putty etc?
note, it would not be too difficult to download a telnet binary called SomeTelnetApplication.html, to save it to disk and call it NewExecutableTelnetApplication.exe
Connect to a known other *nix box on port 80 (e.g. students home cable modem / ADSL line) and then go from there.
The only way to secure against a determined person who wishes to log on to other machines is
In the red corner we have the academics, postion - we can break any watermarking system, evidence - one broken watermarking system
In the blue corner we have the SDMI,
position - we can make watermarking work, evidence, one broken watermarking system.
Now, anonymous is claiming that by demonstrating that present watermarking systems don't work, SDMI is being aided in producing a watermarking scheme that doesn't work and the academics are taking away our freedom.
However, anonymous freely admits he is no expert, yet is clearly siding with the SDMI lobby since they have said they can make watermarking work.
However, the academics [who I hope may be considered experts] are choosing to demonstrate that the present implementation of watermarking doesn't work, and, why it doesn't work. If they were helping SDMI then they would be only presenting their findings to the SDMI committee, instead of presenting them to the public.
I don't believe that the SDMI can make a watermarking system. I am very glad I'm not working as a techie designing / implementing SDMI at the moment. Given my previous experience with marketing departments I suspect the case is the marketing department has decided that the technical department can make a watermarking scheme work.
6: Only be able to use Micro$oft certified petrol
7: Force you to wind down all the windows and wind them up again to make the car go again after the radio randomly stops working on the motorway
8: Convince all the petrol stations to change the design of the fuel pumps every year to be incompatible with your car forcing you to buy a new model
9: Discontinue the supply of spare parts two years after the car was created
If a company provides you with a computer and you routinely have to evaluate software of your choice, providing you've mentioned that the Linux thing might have a useful feature or so I can't see any problems with generating a test system.
Certainly I managed to procure three old boxes to install Linux on to so we could test the usability of UNIX tools and test a failover webserver. The machines were all sitting under the desk gathering dust since they are too low powered to run any iteration of Win(.{2,4})Server.
I don't know what version of Win2000 you are using but mine comes with telnet.
If you delete I can download one.
If you disallow me to run files, I can embed the executable into an office document and run it from there (well, I could under NT anwyay).
I can always boot off a linux floppy.
I can use a java applet from a web page.
If I were you i'd just block port 23 at the firewall. Certainly better than mandating _expensive_, resource hungry software when you've already complained of a lack of resources.
This is the one, three friends of mine wrote it in about 6 hours or so over night, vital components were lots of coffee and the Microsoft sample driver code which they nicked.
In my company we give 24x7 email support and this is forwarded via SMS to a tech persons mobile phone who is then supposed to decide if it needs dealing with etc. etc. etc.
There is no extra pay for this.
However, there is no company phone or pager, I don't have a mobile so I'm not eligible to go on call.
Funny thing is my workmates are perplexed about why I don't have a mobile.
> In science, the burden of proof is upon the one making the claim.
Sure,
I claim that there is a significant possibility that I am unlikely to ever die.
I take a random sample of people who have lived at many points throughout time.
If I sample n people there will be a fraction q who are still alive at the moment. Therefore the probability that I will die is (1-q).
Now q is the number of people alive at the moment divided by the number who have ever lived, I belive this number to be around 0.8 (ish) thanks to an exponential population growth. Therefore the probability of me dying is about 0.2 and my original statement is true.
I have made my hypothesis, I have done study and concluded it was true. Can you refute my findings please?
>Buddy, I've got news for you. The classical model is wrong.
Please detail for us all with quantum mechanics how you find the radiation pattern of an antenna. I believe that the antenna radiation pattern here *might* be important since it answers the question of does the radiation enter your head or not (answer - yes).
The classical model is perfectly adequate to describe the primary problem in this case, to what extent does the radation heat up the brain.
Oh, and don't be so patronizing about your physics class, some of us have a degree in physics (and I'm sure there are others with more than that).
Ok, I've done a single blind test (i.e. the person recording the results also knew the setup) so this isn't 100% accurate.
I took 5 friends who were interested in audio and all have reasonable high end stereos and worry about cable quality.
I then compared their opinions on a favourite track of theirs, once sent pure, once sent with a 50Hz high pass filter and 0.5dB louder.
The louder test won hands down.
Similar tests showed that the louder signal almost always won, even applying small amounts of compression and EQ almost randomly to the sound.
The reason that high end speaker cable sounds better is that it has a lower impedance and is slightly louder than the cheaper cable.
This is why I believe that most audiophiles understand nothing of what they talk [not to mention the profound belief from one hifi magazine that putting your cd's in the fridge improved the sound quality].
Thats part of the point though, you can't not disclose the results of a genetic test.
Your options will be
I have had a genetic test and here are the results.
I have not had a test will be shafted by you.
There is no option for having a test and not telling them - that will certainly invalidate your insurance just as not telling the company about a car crash will for motor insurance.
People invent things like Dilbert to caricature the following
I write database driven websites for a living, including e-commerce.
My boss does not know how to write website or database code.
My boss does not understand what the difference between http and https is and which should be used where.
My boss does not know what sorts of functions are done on the website side of things and what sort of things are done by the database
My boss does not understand what a database is for.
My boss has heard of Internet Explorer and Netscape but is incapable of installing them without my help.
My boss believes that the password field in a HTML form prevents anyone from intercepting your password.
My boss believes that if they change the password on the intranet administration website that the database developers will no longer be able to access and change their information without permission.
My boss does not realise that you must be connected to the internet to access a website.
My boss gets confused when his laptop stops working after a few hours, especially as I can fix it by plugging it in.
My boss believes that his first name is a great password for the company systems, it helps him to remember it (as does the post it note on his monitor).
My boss provides the client with an accurate estimate of how long a project will take and how much it will cost *without* consulting me - afterall my boss must know better than me - otherwise he wouldn't be my boss.
Now do you see why I have little confidence in my boss. The only reason that any money is made is because my boss multiplies the number of paragraphs in the specification by ten and quotes for that many hours, shows it to me for about ten seconds and if I don't yelp sends it to the client, afterall we must be a forward looking proactively leveraged organisation.
From my point of view the incrememnts are too incremental.
When I bought my 486, slowest was a 25sx - the fastest at the time was a DX2 66 - nearly three times the speed.
Now I appear to have a choice between a celery 500ish and a 1Ghz P3 - the P3 isn't even twice as fast and only maintains the lead it does because the celery is artificially crippled by intel. Even then you've still got to try hard to find the 1Ghz P3 because they are rare outside the major manufacturers. For the typical user the graphics card is far more important (e.g. 500 Celery with a Geforce will kill a P3 with an ATI).
I used to pay 20% more on the system price for a 50% increase in clock speed - about 33Mhz, now that 20% will get me about 50-100Mhz or about 10% increase in clock speed, barely noticable after all.
My advice is the best price/MHz chip you can get and a damn fast graphics card. Change the chip next year, you'll still pay less over all and average out at about the same speed.
A system that allows the user, via use of their mobile telephone using a WAP phone and their telephone number as an identification mechanism to browse a shopping cart based WAPsite and order items using a single press of the activation button on the WAP phone.
Since this process does not involve a 'click' it does not fall under the jurisdiction of a prior patent.
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>Not really as all that. Remember, 100% of babies born will eventually die.
I disagree, currently there are about four times as many people alive as have died. Therefore present statistics suggest that only 20% of people actually die.
I think this is a classic example of the present situation, we've built computers that run our 1998 applications very well - we haven't got any 2000 applications yet.
How many applications do people actually use that require fast machines? For me it's
Compiling
Quake 3
DVD decoding
MPEG encoding.
Now, of these, compiling is a sliding scale - it's now 3 minutes instead of 5-6, still stops me working though. Quake 3 means I can have more eye-candy turned on. MPEG encoding now goes in 2 hours instead of 4. The only qualitative difference is now I can decode DVD's in real time, with good sound quality.
I've done three major upgrades
486(25) -> Cyrix 100
Many games, office applications, internet etc.
Celeron 300 -> P3 500
Quake 3, DVD, fast encoding of mp3s
I'm not moving from a P3 500 until a killer application comes out, and so far it still hasn't got here. Instead I'm buying things like surround sound, TV card, fast video card (eye candy again), decent monitor, hard disk space. I don't have any real requirement for more processor power. The only thing it would help with is compiling and memory is cheaper and more effective.
I suppose if I took up 3d modelling or heavy photoshop work it might be worth while but for running VI it really isn't necessary.
"Using n tranducers located in y shape driven as a phased array with delays calculated by allows motion of objects on it's surface in these patterns. This can be generalised by use of "
He's not patenting the idea of moving things with sounds. It's the implementation of doing so.
Is this obvious to another expert in the field - I suspect the answer is no - it has taken lots of work to figure out how to do this.
It's obvious that I could patent a 'cure for cancer' using 'drugs' but I doubt the idea I've just stated now would grant me rights over all possible cures for cancer in the future.
Genetically modified crops are frequently destroyed in the field and when in test because "We don't know what might happen".
Guess we aren't always as enlightened as we think we are.
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The best thing to do in these circumstances is
Take the output and render it out with one image per page.
Then embed a single image per page into the word document.
> Delete telnet.exe on sight, and scan for renamed telnet copies.
[How to stop people running applications on a Win 2k system]
Have you actually tried this on Win2k ?
You get a "Important Windows System Files Have Been Deleted" prompt, it asks you to insert the Win 2000 CD and then replaces the CD. You can tell it to go away but as soon as you insert the CD again, telnet comes back.
How do you stop people downloading telnet type applications - e.g. putty etc?
note, it would not be too difficult to download a telnet binary called SomeTelnetApplication.html, to save it to disk and call it NewExecutableTelnetApplication.exe
Connect to a known other *nix box on port 80 (e.g. students home cable modem / ADSL line) and then go from there.
The only way to secure against a determined person who wishes to log on to other machines is
disable _all_ write access to the disk
unplug from the network
In the red corner we have the academics, postion - we can break any watermarking system, evidence - one broken watermarking system
In the blue corner we have the SDMI,
position - we can make watermarking work, evidence, one broken watermarking system.
Now, anonymous is claiming that by demonstrating that present watermarking systems don't work, SDMI is being aided in producing a watermarking scheme that doesn't work and the academics are taking away our freedom.
However, anonymous freely admits he is no expert, yet is clearly siding with the SDMI lobby since they have said they can make watermarking work.
However, the academics [who I hope may be considered experts] are choosing to demonstrate that the present implementation of watermarking doesn't work, and, why it doesn't work. If they were helping SDMI then they would be only presenting their findings to the SDMI committee, instead of presenting them to the public.
I don't believe that the SDMI can make a watermarking system. I am very glad I'm not working as a techie designing / implementing SDMI at the moment. Given my previous experience with marketing departments I suspect the case is the marketing department has decided that the technical department can make a watermarking scheme work.
6: Only be able to use Micro$oft certified petrol
7: Force you to wind down all the windows and wind them up again to make the car go again after the radio randomly stops working on the motorway
8: Convince all the petrol stations to change the design of the fuel pumps every year to be incompatible with your car forcing you to buy a new model
9: Discontinue the supply of spare parts two years after the car was created
If a company provides you with a computer and you routinely have to evaluate software of your choice, providing you've mentioned that the Linux thing might have a useful feature or so I can't see any problems with generating a test system.
Certainly I managed to procure three old boxes to install Linux on to so we could test the usability of UNIX tools and test a failover webserver. The machines were all sitting under the desk gathering dust since they are too low powered to run any iteration of Win(.{2,4})Server.
I don't know what version of Win2000 you are using but mine comes with telnet.
If you delete I can download one.
If you disallow me to run files, I can embed the executable into an office document and run it from there (well, I could under NT anwyay).
I can always boot off a linux floppy.
I can use a java applet from a web page.
If I were you i'd just block port 23 at the firewall. Certainly better than mandating _expensive_, resource hungry software when you've already complained of a lack of resources.
This is the very reason Micro$oft is forcing digitally signed drivers from Redmond - secure music will not allowed to be played via non signed driver.
NT doesn't have signed drivers and this may explain why media player > 6.5 doesn't exist for NT.
This is the one, three friends of mine wrote it in about 6 hours or so over night, vital components were lots of coffee and the Microsoft sample driver code which they nicked.
In my company we give 24x7 email support and this is forwarded via SMS to a tech persons mobile phone who is then supposed to decide if it needs dealing with etc. etc. etc.
There is no extra pay for this.
However, there is no company phone or pager, I don't have a mobile so I'm not eligible to go on call.
Funny thing is my workmates are perplexed about why I don't have a mobile.
Given how much the PhD students I know get paid they would certainly do better delivering the Pizza.
22. Somone postulates the existance of a beowulf cluster of 21s.
> In science, the burden of proof is upon the one making the claim.
Sure,
I claim that there is a significant possibility that I am unlikely to ever die.
I take a random sample of people who have lived at many points throughout time.
If I sample n people there will be a fraction q who are still alive at the moment. Therefore the probability that I will die is (1-q).
Now q is the number of people alive at the moment divided by the number who have ever lived, I belive this number to be around 0.8 (ish) thanks to an exponential population growth. Therefore the probability of me dying is about 0.2 and my original statement is true.
I have made my hypothesis, I have done study and concluded it was true. Can you refute my findings please?
>Buddy, I've got news for you. The classical model is wrong.
Please detail for us all with quantum mechanics how you find the radiation pattern of an antenna. I believe that the antenna radiation pattern here *might* be important since it answers the question of does the radiation enter your head or not (answer - yes).
The classical model is perfectly adequate to describe the primary problem in this case, to what extent does the radation heat up the brain.
Oh, and don't be so patronizing about your physics class, some of us have a degree in physics (and I'm sure there are others with more than that).
Ok, I've done a single blind test (i.e. the person recording the results also knew the setup) so this isn't 100% accurate.
I took 5 friends who were interested in audio and all have reasonable high end stereos and worry about cable quality.
I then compared their opinions on a favourite track of theirs, once sent pure, once sent with a 50Hz high pass filter and 0.5dB louder.
The louder test won hands down.
Similar tests showed that the louder signal almost always won, even applying small amounts of compression and EQ almost randomly to the sound.
The reason that high end speaker cable sounds better is that it has a lower impedance and is slightly louder than the cheaper cable.
This is why I believe that most audiophiles understand nothing of what they talk [not to mention the profound belief from one hifi magazine that putting your cd's in the fridge improved the sound quality].
Thats part of the point though, you can't not disclose the results of a genetic test.
Your options will be
I have had a genetic test and here are the results.
I have not had a test will be shafted by you.
There is no option for having a test and not telling them - that will certainly invalidate your insurance just as not telling the company about a car crash will for motor insurance.
No,
People invent things like Dilbert to caricature the following
I write database driven websites for a living, including e-commerce.
My boss does not know how to write website or database code.
My boss does not understand what the difference between http and https is and which should be used where.
My boss does not know what sorts of functions are done on the website side of things and what sort of things are done by the database
My boss does not understand what a database is for.
My boss has heard of Internet Explorer and Netscape but is incapable of installing them without my help.
My boss believes that the password field in a HTML form prevents anyone from intercepting your password.
My boss believes that if they change the password on the intranet administration website that the database developers will no longer be able to access and change their information without permission.
My boss does not realise that you must be connected to the internet to access a website.
My boss gets confused when his laptop stops working after a few hours, especially as I can fix it by plugging it in.
My boss believes that his first name is a great password for the company systems, it helps him to remember it (as does the post it note on his monitor).
My boss provides the client with an accurate estimate of how long a project will take and how much it will cost *without* consulting me - afterall my boss must know better than me - otherwise he wouldn't be my boss.
Now do you see why I have little confidence in my boss. The only reason that any money is made is because my boss multiplies the number of paragraphs in the specification by ten and quotes for that many hours, shows it to me for about ten seconds and if I don't yelp sends it to the client, afterall we must be a forward looking proactively leveraged organisation.
However, Philip Greenspun is also a rich bloke who runs the worlds coolest and probably most expensive homepage.
Yours to view at
http://www.photo.net/
Approx cost ~ $1 Million / year
From my point of view the incrememnts are too incremental.
When I bought my 486, slowest was a 25sx - the fastest at the time was a DX2 66 - nearly three times the speed.
Now I appear to have a choice between a celery 500ish and a 1Ghz P3 - the P3 isn't even twice as fast and only maintains the lead it does because the celery is artificially crippled by intel. Even then you've still got to try hard to find the 1Ghz P3 because they are rare outside the major manufacturers. For the typical user the graphics card is far more important (e.g. 500 Celery with a Geforce will kill a P3 with an ATI).
I used to pay 20% more on the system price for a 50% increase in clock speed - about 33Mhz, now that 20% will get me about 50-100Mhz or about 10% increase in clock speed, barely noticable after all.
My advice is the best price/MHz chip you can get and a damn fast graphics card. Change the chip next year, you'll still pay less over all and average out at about the same speed.
A system that allows the user, via use of their mobile telephone using a WAP phone and their telephone number as an identification mechanism to browse a shopping cart based WAPsite and order items using a single press of the activation button on the WAP phone.
Since this process does not involve a 'click' it does not fall under the jurisdiction of a prior patent.
Mousollini won the Nobel Peace Prize.
>Not really as all that. Remember, 100% of babies born will eventually die.
I disagree, currently there are about four times as many people alive as have died. Therefore present statistics suggest that only 20% of people actually die.
I think this is a classic example of the present situation, we've built computers that run our 1998 applications very well - we haven't got any 2000 applications yet.
How many applications do people actually use that require fast machines? For me it's
Compiling
Quake 3
DVD decoding
MPEG encoding.
Now, of these, compiling is a sliding scale - it's now 3 minutes instead of 5-6, still stops me working though. Quake 3 means I can have more eye-candy turned on. MPEG encoding now goes in 2 hours instead of 4. The only qualitative difference is now I can decode DVD's in real time, with good sound quality.
I've done three major upgrades
486(25) -> Cyrix 100
Many games, office applications, internet etc.
Cyrix 100 -> Celeron 300 (cacheless)
mp3 decoding, streaming video, multitasking
Celeron 300 -> P3 500
Quake 3, DVD, fast encoding of mp3s
I'm not moving from a P3 500 until a killer application comes out, and so far it still hasn't got here. Instead I'm buying things like surround sound, TV card, fast video card (eye candy again), decent monitor, hard disk space. I don't have any real requirement for more processor power. The only thing it would help with is compiling and memory is cheaper and more effective.
I suppose if I took up 3d modelling or heavy photoshop work it might be worth while but for running VI it really isn't necessary.
This is clearly patentable.
Whilst the following patent would be obvious
"Use sound to move objects around"
the following would not
"Using n tranducers located in y shape driven as a phased array with delays calculated by allows motion of objects on it's surface in these patterns. This can be generalised by use of "
He's not patenting the idea of moving things with sounds. It's the implementation of doing so.
Is this obvious to another expert in the field - I suspect the answer is no - it has taken lots of work to figure out how to do this.
It's obvious that I could patent a 'cure for cancer' using 'drugs' but I doubt the idea I've just stated now would grant me rights over all possible cures for cancer in the future.
You really should bare in mind that the fungus eats the spaceship as food.
This would end up doing a spaceship -> astronaut food conversion which may not be considered in an entirely positive light by the astronauts.
http://www.fre esp eech.org/sharelist/SHACTEMP/archives/000622.html
Account of Huntingdon Life Sciences [UK]- researchers who do animal research, they suffer a daily barrage of abuse, have been firebombed and are effectively under seige from animal rights protestors.
Genetically modified crops are frequently destroyed in the field and when in test because "We don't know what might happen".
Guess we aren't always as enlightened as we think we are.